History Studies

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These studies are history courses which support the expository Bible teaching of the other courses in the curriculum.

Each of these studies is a Grace Notes course. To enroll for a course write to me at: wdoud@gracenotes.info. 

Ancient Civilizations (Unit XII; 10 Courses; 55 lessons) - History 800 starts with a series of nine (9) courses of five (5) lessons each, on ancient civilizations. The history is taken from the books by George Rawlinson, on Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Persia, Parthia, Phoenicia, Egypt, and the Sassanians (Modern Persians).  Another course of 10 lessons is based on Suetonius’ book on the Twelve Caesars¸ the emperors who ruled Rome during the time of Christ and the Apostles.

Herodotus, The Histories (Elective; 10 Lessons) - A course based on the ancient text of The Histories, by Herodotus

History 100 (Unit I; 10 lessons) - A general introduction to history in Bible light, including Old Testament History, Roman History, Judean History (the 400 silent years), and a brief history of Crete.

History of the Christian Church - Philip Schaff - Eight courses, one for each of the eight volumes of Schaff’s work.

History of the Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem under Titus (Unit VIII; 12 Lessons) - Alfred Edersheim.

History of the Orthodox Greek Church (Elective; 20 Lessons) - This course answers to the requests of some students for information about the formation and history of the Eastern Orthodox Church.  It covers all of the contents of Eighteen Centuries of the Orthodox Greek Church, by the Rev. A. H. Hore, MA, Trinity College, Oxford, 1899.

History of Utah  (Elective; 10 lessons) - Volume 26 of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s thirty-nine (39) volumes of the history of western North America. The 39 volumes provide detailed histories of Alaska, the western Canadian provinces, the States west of the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and Central America, from their earliest known existence until the last part of the 19th century.  A large part of this volume is the history of the Mormon Church, from its founding by Joseph Smith until it was fully established in the state of Utah.

The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Unit V; 20 lessons) Alfred Edersheim. Among the outward means by which the religion of Israel was preserved, one of the most important was the centralization and localization of its worship in Jerusalem. If to some the ordinances of the Old Testament may in this respect seem narrow and exclusive, it is at least doubtful, whether without such a provision Monotheism itself could have continued as a creed or a worship.

Old Testament History (Unit VI; 20 Lessons) - Alfred Edersheim. This is one of the most thorough and scholarly treatments of the history of Bible times that is available anywhere. All of the historical narrative is traced in parallel with the Old Testament Bible.

Paul - Twenty-eight lessons over three units, on the 28 chapters of the book The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, by W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson.

Sketches of Jewish Social Life (Unit IV; 10 Lessons)- Alfred Edersheim. The lives of Jews, Jewish Christians, in their families and in the society at the time of the early church.

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services as They Were at the Time of Christ (Unit III; 19 Lessons) – Alfred Edersheim. A very thorough study by a great Jewish Christian scholar.

Venerable Bede - Life and Writings (Elective; 18 Lessons) - There are eighteen (18) lessons in this course, covering the book The Venerable Bede – His Life and Writings, by the Rt. Rev. G. F. Browne, DD.

The Wars of the Jews  (Unit XII; Seven (7) Lessons) - Based on the book The Wars of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus.